0922 France's Charles III (the Simple) is deposed by rebellious barons and replaced with Robert, brother of King Odo, who is crowned king of the Franks at Reims while Charles gathers an army to march against the usurper

1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America

1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay

1776 Va state constitution adopted &Patrick Henry made governor

1850 Around Nanaimo BC, coal discovered on Vancouver Island; will prove valuable for refueling Royal navy ships and CPR trains.

1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million

1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia

1862 Day 5 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station

1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN

1863 Very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa

1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed

1891 100ø F (San Fransisco, CA)

1898 First through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19 20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22 45, June 30.

1898 In St. John's Newfoundland, the first through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19 20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22 45, June 30.

1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage

1906 Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland departs on maiden voyage to Quebec; will sink on 96th voyage, May 29 1914.

1913 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War

1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani

1916 Boeing aircraft flies for first time

1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #979 Ilsewa

1927 First flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii

1927 Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller first tested on an Avro 504 trainer; Rothesay, NB, aeronautical engineer creates one of Canada's great global inventions.

1929 First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca

1931 109ø F (43ø C), Monticello, Florida (state record)

1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"

1937 Joseph-Armand Bombardier 1884-1951 patents his Bombardier B-7 Snow Tractor, a seven-passenger tracked machine costing $7,500

1939 Dixie Clipper completes first commercial plane flight to Europe

1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register

1941 Pamela Emily Maud born to William David Davies and Phyllis Maud Davies. Happy 60th Birthday 2001 - love All the Family XXX

1942 Following an inspection of Igor I. Sikorsky's VS-300 helicopter, Lieutenant Commander F. A. Erickson, USCG, recommended that helicopters be obtained for antisubmarine convoy duty and life-saving.

1944 The Parachute Experimental Division was established at Lakehurst, N.,J., for research, development, and testing of parachutes and survival gear.

1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR

1946 British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists

1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

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